Gibbet Poems - Poems about Gibbet

The Cold Embrace of Death

...Heinous are the horrors in the rages of war 
after it makes its purchase of pawns.
Brave are those following orders with a salute.
Some will never see their homeland again
for the reach of the re...

Senryu'to the gibbet

....

                  mine last breathe 'fore dead
           though shez would attest 'twuz theirn
                      it were eve broke'd me





*ya know, in some countries, 'tiz
  cap...

Still Dithering With Hesitation On Brink of Abysmal Precipice I

...Infinite pitch black void zoomed,
I vacillated then pitched headlong
(head and knobby knees, over heels)
where skeletons in shuttered closets roomed,
and antithesis of freedom loomed
large (thin...

Valentine's Day Always Found Me Aquiver 1st Heartfelt Hug

...Countless generations lapsed since height of Greco-Roman mythology conceived, birthed and populated vast canopy of sky and expanse of terrestrial firmament, whereat obeisant propinquity quintessentia...

June 12th 2017 Transition Revisited and Revised Today 4 2 2021

...June 12th 2017 TRANSITION revisited and revised today 4/2/2021

While scrolling over outdated docs
(i.e. namely OpenOffice documents)
derrière seated upon hard backed chair,
yours truly came upo...

Valentines Day 2021

...Valentine's Day 2021

Yours truly not necessarily
romantic fellow at heart
more accurately methinks myself
lame and inadequate sorry excuse
for reasonably rhyming spouse,
but courtesy after si...

Gibbering Jabbering Gibberish Haint No Recipe To Sound Glib

...Ofttimes yours truly assiduously tries to adlib,
but blubbers like a landlubber
at sea treading water donned with bib
(that doubles as yellow
spongy bobbing life jacket)

furiously doing doggy ...

Dithering With Hesitation On Brink of Abysmal Precipice

...Infinite pitch black void zooms,
I vacillate to pitch headlong (head over heels)
where freedom looms
large (think) cosmic size grand canyon grooms
espouses, and cloisters unbridled wedded bliss
...

To Dead Heart O Valentine Come

...I’m dead in my heart
you killed me by the sword lips
oh! what a killer sight you have
I’m banned in my heart 
O beauty
you sovereign my poetry

I’m ruined in your cheek dimple,
your neckline ...

Transient Troubadour Traverses Terrestrial Terrain

...'Course as a grim teller of tall tales,
(albeit poetic) reasonable rhyming
quasi roundelay I readily admitted to feign
cuz, stringing words together with
pride and prejudice plus
sense and sensi...

Haman's Comeuppance

...Standing fifty cubits high-
the gallows meant for Mordecai,
but Haman's scheming went awry;
and on the gibbet carved from pride
not Mordecai, but Haman died.


08.10.19

( reference - Old Te...

The Dryad's Scream - 22 Mar 2016

...I heard the dreadful Dryad's scream
As axe bit into woody flesh
The sap oozed out as scented cream
My veins stood out in rictal mesh

My wits all scrambled left me quick
My hands and face were ...

Soldiers Strait

...Wandering And Loafing thither-stunned I knew,
Scorching sweat-and a grim creature view,
Aye troubled and loaded vista of misery,
Swirling with abjectness seeming weary,
 
Nor they stand upright ...

Divine Comedy Translation Canto Xiii Hell Part 2

...(Continues after part 1)

Stopped to talk, and then “Since his voice now dries”,
Told poet to me, “your time don’t lose, be fast;
But speak, and ask him, if like that more arise”.

And I to him...

Dead Woman's Ditch

...Young Johnny Walford was a handsome man
He possessed a keen intelligent mind
Yet the life he desperately desired
In the end poor Johnny would never find

Lack of education, coal dusted hands
His hear...

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